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culturgen en · NOUN

Etymology

Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.

Meanings

  1. One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.

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Synonyms

meme

wikipedia: Charles J. Lumsden · wikipedia: Richard Dawkins · wikipedia: E. O. Wilson